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en-UScputnam@winxnet.comcputnam@winxnet.comSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:24:26 GMTSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:24:26 GMThttp://backend.userland.com/rssPackFlash Publishing RSS Generator Version 2.4.1.0Late Cardinal Played Key Role in Catholic Ed. in Lead-up to Ex corde EcclesiaeCardinal William Baum, one of the principal players in Pope St. John Paul II&rsquo;s constitution on Catholic higher education,&nbsp;Ex corde Ecclesiae, has passed away at the age of 88 after a long illness, according to&nbsp;Catholic News Service. He died on July 23 in Washington, D.C., at a residence run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.<br />
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&ldquo;Cardinal Baum served as the head of the Congregation for Catholic Education during some of the most pivotal years,&rdquo; said Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick Reilly. &ldquo;Ex corde Ecclesiae&nbsp;provided Catholic colleges, for the first time, with clear guidelines for maintaining Catholic identity. Even though it continues to challenge the practices at many Catholic institutions, a cadre of faithful Catholic institutions is setting a new standard for Catholic higher education by putting&nbsp;<em>Ex corde</em>&nbsp;into practice.&rdquo;<br />
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Cardinal Baum, who served as the archbishop of Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1980, died just weeks short of&nbsp;<em>Ex corde</em>&rsquo;s 25th anniversary. A cardinal for more than 39 years&mdash;the longest tenure of any cardinal in U.S. history&mdash;he also served as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education from 1980 to 1990, the year&nbsp;Ex corde&nbsp;was promulgated, and then head of the Apostolic Penitentiary until he retired in 2001.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4308/Late-Cardinal-Played-Key-Role-in-Catholic-Ed-in-Lead-up-to-Ex-corde-Ecclesiae.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4308/Late-Cardinal-Played-Key-Role-in-Catholic-Ed-in-Lead-up-to-Ex-corde-Ecclesiae.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4308/Late-Cardinal-Played-Key-Role-in-Catholic-Ed-in-Lead-up-to-Ex-corde-Ecclesiae.aspxWed, 29 Jul 2015 12:10:00 GMT0Catholic Colleges Must Listen to Pope Benedict’s Strong Case for Sacred Music, Says Prof.The availability of well-celebrated liturgy and sacred music should be the norm at all Catholic colleges, not the exception, said Dr. Kurt Poterack, choir director and adjunct professor of music at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. Poterack spoke with The Cardinal Newman Society regarding Pope Emeritus Benedict&rsquo;s recent comments on sacred music and what it means for Catholic colleges.<br />
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The Pope Emeritus recently received&nbsp;honorary doctorates&nbsp;from the John Paul II Pontifical University of Krakow and from the Academy of Music of Krakow in Poland. The former pontiff took the opportunity to thank the now-saint Pope John Paul II for the profound impact he had in his own spiritual life and also share his own reflections on the benefits of sacred music.<br />
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The emphasis on sacred music is certainly something that Catholic colleges should be paying attention to, as it helps students to encounter the living God in liturgy, Poterack stated.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4299/Catholic-Colleges-Must-Listen-to-Pope-Benedict’s-Strong-Case-for-Sacred-Music-Says-Prof.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4299/Catholic-Colleges-Must-Listen-to-Pope-Benedict’s-Strong-Case-for-Sacred-Music-Says-Prof.aspx
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Fr. Peter Mitchell&rsquo;s book,&nbsp;<em>The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Institution</em>s, details the dramatic events that took place at CUA, the nation&rsquo;s flagship Catholic university, and the unfortunate precedent it set for other Catholic colleges in America during that time. However, in recent years, CUA has returned to its roots and re-strengthened its Catholic identity in many meaningful ways.<br />
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&ldquo;I grew up realizing that there was a lot of dissent in the way the Church&rsquo;s teaching was taught at a lot of Catholic colleges,&rdquo; Fr. Mitchell told the Newman Society. The book, he said, was an attempt to uncover that trail and discover what led to the overwhelming dissent still prevalent in so many of today&rsquo;s Catholic colleges.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4294/Fidelity’s-Triumph-over-Dissent-Remembering-the-‘Coup-at-Catholic-University’.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4294/Fidelity’s-Triumph-over-Dissent-Remembering-the-‘Coup-at-Catholic-University’.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4294/Fidelity’s-Triumph-over-Dissent-Remembering-the-‘Coup-at-Catholic-University’.aspxFri, 17 Jul 2015 11:25:00 GMT0Catholic Professors Claim Hostile Environment at Loyola Marymount Univ.A faculty survey at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, Calif., found that fewer than a third of professors are Catholic&mdash;in violation of the Vatican&rsquo;s minimum requirement of 50 percent&mdash;and faculty are under significant duress as a result.&nbsp; <br />
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The &ldquo;faculty climate survey&rdquo; commissioned by LMU in July 2014 and obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society reveals &ldquo;contention&rdquo; among &ldquo;conservative&rdquo; and &ldquo;progressive&rdquo; Catholics on staff.&nbsp;The survey report reads, &ldquo;Conservative Catholics feel they are in an environment that is hostile to what they feel are true Catholic values.&rdquo; Moreover, recorded faculty comments indicate that the University&rsquo;s &ldquo;interreligious point of view is watered down Catholicism and a departure from the Catholic Church.&rdquo;<br />
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A minority of LMU&rsquo;s faculty reportedly identifies as Catholic. &ldquo;Of the 299 who chose to disclose their religious preference, 94 (31%) identified as Roman Catholic,&rdquo; the survey evidenced. This ratio fails to meet the recommendations in Pope Saint John Paul II&rsquo;s apostolic constitution&nbsp;Ex corde Ecclesiae, which indicates that Catholic universities should maintain a majority of Catholic staff to ensure that the Catholic identity of the institution is not compromised.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4252/Catholic-Professors-Claim-Hostile-Environment-at-Loyola-Marymount-Univ.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4252/Catholic-Professors-Claim-Hostile-Environment-at-Loyola-Marymount-Univ.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4252/Catholic-Professors-Claim-Hostile-Environment-at-Loyola-Marymount-Univ.aspxWed, 17 Jun 2015 15:34:00 GMT0Faithful Catholic Education Needed to Reclaim Millennial GenerationChristian affiliation and church attendance among young people is steadily declining, which makes faithful Catholic education even more essential in reclaiming the &ldquo;millennial&rdquo; generation. This connection was recently emphasized by Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., who stated that faithful Catholic communities&mdash;such as college campuses&mdash;can serve as supportive faith environments which are critical to spiritual formation.&nbsp; <br />
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&nbsp;In his address during the opening remarks of&nbsp;Sacra Liturgia USA 2015, Bishop Caggiano highlighted the modern disconnect between &ldquo;spirituality&rdquo; and &ldquo;religion.&rdquo; Society &ldquo;is changing before our very eyes and is giving a daunting challenge to those who wish to be faithful to the Catholic Church,&rdquo; he stated.<br />
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&ldquo;It seems to me that however we categorize those challenges, they all have a common root,&rdquo; summed up through the phrase: &ldquo;I am spiritual, but I am not religious.&rdquo; Bishop Caggiano noted that this phrase &ldquo;haunts&rdquo; him, as it represents a challenge to &ldquo;the need for that spiritual search to involve you, or me, or any community of faith.&rdquo; The &ldquo;community of believers&rdquo;&mdash;manifested through the Church&mdash;is being summarily dismissed by a majority of young people.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4250/Faithful-Catholic-Education-Needed-to-Reclaim-Millennial-Generation.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4250/Faithful-Catholic-Education-Needed-to-Reclaim-Millennial-Generation.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4250/Faithful-Catholic-Education-Needed-to-Reclaim-Millennial-Generation.aspxTue, 16 Jun 2015 17:02:00 GMT0Newman Society Panelists Agree, Liturgy Essential to Today’s College CatholicsCatholic colleges must provide opportunities for students to experience the beautiful and well-celebrated liturgy that they are drawn to, according to a panel of academics at this week&rsquo;s&nbsp;Sacra Liturgia conference&nbsp;in New York City.<br />
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Tuesday&rsquo;s panel on liturgical renewal in Catholic higher education was hosted by The Cardinal Newman Society and&nbsp;headlined by Cardinal Raymond Burke, patron of the Order of Malta and ecclesiastical advisor to the Newman Society. He was joined by four guest panelists who echoed the Cardinal&rsquo;s urging for Catholic colleges to expose students to the beauty of properly celebrated liturgy.<br />
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The conference brought together over 300 bishops, priests, religious, seminarians, educators, college professors and other lay leaders, and the overarching sentiment was the same: young people desire beauty and truth, and the Church&mdash;including Catholic colleges&mdash;must not fail provide them with that encounter this time around. The conference was notably populated with many young faces, youth who were brought up through the ranks of faithful Catholic education.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4232/Newman-Society-Panelists-Agree-Liturgy-Essential-to-Today’s-College-Catholics.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4232/Newman-Society-Panelists-Agree-Liturgy-Essential-to-Today’s-College-Catholics.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4232/Newman-Society-Panelists-Agree-Liturgy-Essential-to-Today’s-College-Catholics.aspxFri, 05 Jun 2015 14:34:00 GMT0Vatican Secretary of State Warns of ‘Global Emergency for Education’Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state for the Holy See, continued the Vatican&rsquo;s warning about a &ldquo;global emergency for education&rdquo; at a United Nations event on Wednesday to celebrate the anniversaries of two key documents on Catholic education.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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The conference held at the Paris offices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was organized by the Congregation for Catholic Education to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II Declaration on Christian Education, <em>Gravissimum Educationis</em>, and the 25th anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities,&nbsp;<em>Ex corde Ecclesiae</em>. In November, the Vatican will again celebrate the documents with a&nbsp;World Congress&nbsp;in Rome.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4230/Vatican-Secretary-of-State-Warns-of-‘Global-Emergency-for-Education’.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4230/Vatican-Secretary-of-State-Warns-of-‘Global-Emergency-for-Education’.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4230/Vatican-Secretary-of-State-Warns-of-‘Global-Emergency-for-Education’.aspxFri, 05 Jun 2015 12:07:00 GMT0Vatican’s New Education Prefect Opposes ‘Relativistic’ Culture, Defends FamilyCardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, who was recently named by Pope Francis to serve as prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, has a strong record of defending marriage and family against a culture that increasingly dilutes the importance of those sacred institutions. <br />
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His appointment comes at a time when Catholic education and religious freedom are under attack by advocates for the redefinition of marriage and sexual morality, and just months before the Synod on the Family later this year. <br />
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In a 2013 speech on the defense of the natural family, Cardinal Versaldi urged the Church to resist a &ldquo;relativistic and subjective culture,&rdquo;ZENIT&nbsp;reported. As modern culture becomes increasingly embroiled in redefinition, it becomes more necessary than ever to safeguard &ldquo;the full and objective meaning of marriage,&rdquo; Cardinal Versaldi said.<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4117/Vatican’s-New-Education-Prefect-Opposes-‘Relativistic’-Culture-Defends-Family.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4117/Vatican’s-New-Education-Prefect-Opposes-‘Relativistic’-Culture-Defends-Family.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4117/Vatican’s-New-Education-Prefect-Opposes-‘Relativistic’-Culture-Defends-Family.aspxThu, 09 Apr 2015 12:52:00 GMT0Chicago Student Leader Urges Fellow Students to Help Reform Wayward Catholic CollegesCatholic colleges that have lost touch with their Catholic identity must be buoyed to action and renewal through their student bodies according to Dominic Lynch, an undergraduate student at Loyola University Chicago who is an exemplar of student leadership in support of faithful Catholic education.<br />
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Lynch, a senior political science major at Loyola, sees a unique responsibility to affect change on his campus as a student. Students are &ldquo;the boots on the ground&rdquo; and &ldquo;can have a huge impact on the reform process,&rdquo; he told The Cardinal Newman Society in an interview this week.<br />
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&ldquo;My Catholic background motivates me to do what I can to influence campus events and reform the most obvious breaches of Loyola&rsquo;s Catholic identity,&rdquo; said Lynch. &ldquo;I want to reform my institution because I love it and I see what it can be. I want it to be an authentically Catholic institution that is proud of its Catholic identity&mdash;not an institution hiding its Catholicism under a bushel.&rdquo;<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4108/Chicago-Student-Leader-Urges-Fellow-Students-to-Help-Reform-Wayward-Catholic-Colleges.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4108/Chicago-Student-Leader-Urges-Fellow-Students-to-Help-Reform-Wayward-Catholic-Colleges.aspx
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4108/Chicago-Student-Leader-Urges-Fellow-Students-to-Help-Reform-Wayward-Catholic-Colleges.aspxWed, 01 Apr 2015 09:15:00 GMT0Bishop Ricken Issues Statement Strongly Opposing St. Norbert’s Invite to Gloria Steinem"As bishop, I have the responsibility to ensure the Catholic identity of the Catholic colleges in our diocese," said Bishop Ricken of the Green Bay Diocese. "I have conveyed my strong disapproval to the abbot, the president of the college and the chair of the Board of Trustees."<p><a href='http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/3863/Bishop-Ricken-Issues-Statement-Strongly-Opposing-St-Norbert’s-Invite-to-Gloria-Steinem.aspx'>More...</a></p>http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/3863/Bishop-Ricken-Issues-Statement-Strongly-Opposing-St-Norbert’s-Invite-to-Gloria-Steinem.aspx
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